Q. hlón(a) (hlon-) n. “noise, sound” (Category: Noise, Thunder)
A word for “a noise” appearing in a list of roots for sound words from 1959-60 with variants hlóna and hlōn, derived from the root √(S)LON (PE17/138). It also appeared in a draft of the Quendi and Eldar essay from around the same time as hlōn “sound” from ✶slōn, an element in ohlon “diphthong” (VT48/29). It appeared in its plural form hloni “sound” in the Quendi and Eldar essay itself (WJ/394).
Conceptual Development: A similar form ᴱQ. lon or londe “loud noise” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the early root ᴱ√LOŘO [LOÐO] (QL/56).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use this word mostly for incoherent (and especially non-vocal) noise, as opposed to Q. láma for more coherent (and especially vocal) sound, even though this isn’t entirely consistent with Tolkien’s term Q. hlonitë for “phonetic”. Perhaps the use of hlon- in this term emphasizes that a phoneme cannot by itself be coherent, especially consonantal phonemes (which were the focus of early Elvish linguistics).
References ✧ PE17/138; VT48/29; WJ/394
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| hloni | plural | “sounds” | ✧ WJ/394 |
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| √SLON > hlóna | [slōna] > [l̥ōna] | ✧ PE17/138 |
| √slōn > hlōn | [slōn] > [l̥ōn] | ✧ VT48/29 |